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Pueblo'sLow-CostSpay/NeuterClinicandNoKillShelter

Sitting on the southside of beautiful Pueblo, Colorado, the Southern Colorado Spay and Neuter Association and No Kill Shelter is one of the areas greatest gems when it comes to the care and treatment of pets!

Originally opened in 1997, SoCO was established to provide a proactive approach to the increasing pet-population in our area. Seeing that the 2 existing shelters were continually over-flowing and in desperate need of help, the founders of SoCO were excited to take such a progressive step in offering low-cost sterilizations to the public. After a few short months of operations, it was also noted that another shelter was still necessary. The extra rooms and kennels that were a part of the existing veterinary clinic that SoCO purchased were quickly used to house homeless dogs and cats. With the veterinary staff on site, we were able to take in pets that would not necessarily make it in a traditional shelter setting.

After 21 years of operation, SoCO still stands tall and proud! We are still offering our low-cost preventative care to the public, and our no kill shelter is still helping hundreds of unwanted pets a year!

2018 has been a very exciting year for us with the addition of two new programs:

The SoCO Paw Responders is a professional, select team of animal rescuers specializing in the safe capture and recovery of lost and stray pets. Since beginning in early January, we have received calls from all over our state for assistance in safely capturing lost pets-whether the team is physically a part of the rescue or just advising, we have saved dozens of lost pets this year alone! Our team has helped so much that we have received thousands of dollars in donations to assist us in purchasing tools for safe capture, including trail cams, TruCatch traps, and other necessities.

The SoCO Bottle Feeding Program was originally designed for our local city shelter, after they voiced their desire for help with one. It was created by our own Executive Director, but was ultimately declined by the city shelter. We were happy to utilize it ourselves and put the program in place in January of 2018. After only a few months of being put into place, the bottle feeding program received such recognition within our city that a grant was given in the amount of $5000.00 by a local grant funding group. Over 100 neonatal kittens have been saved so far this year alone because of this program and we are still going strong! The program recruits and trains foster families to care for neonatal kittens until they are old enough to be adopted. We will be offering bottle feeding certification classes in 2019, so if youre interested please contact us at 719-564-3776.

With our original mission statement at the forefront of our facility, we have added these additional programs and are leading the way in animal care in Colorado!

Preventative care services in the form of vaccinations, microchipping, heartworm testing for dogs, AIDS/Leukemia testing for cats, and even simple toe nail trims are done as a walk in during normal business hours!

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To promote and provide for the humane treatment of animals through affordable population control, education, rescue, and adoption.More

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Our rescue is, well, in our opinion, the greatest rescue in all of Southern Colorado! Due to the fact that we have a veterinary team on staff, we can take in many different types of rescue pets, varying from the perfectly healthy to those with treatable conditions, to those with chronic conditions! Our rescue has been called on from all around the country to see if we have availability to take special needs pets. We have taken in pets from north Denver, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico.

In 2018 we were able to expand our rescue to fit the needs we were seeing of our beautiful city. The SoCO Paw Responders team was established to assist in the safe rescue of lost or stray dogs.

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The Southern Colorado Spay and Neuter Association was opened in April of 1997 as a hopeful solution to the pet over-population problem. Operating out of a little veterinary clinic on the southside of Pueblo, CO, SoCO Spay and Neuter Clinic is a wonderful place for pet owners to play a key role in the health of their beloved pets!

Since opening our doors, we have sterilized over 80,000 pets in southern Colorado! From that starting point, we have made the best of opportunities to grow our little spay and neuter clinic into one of the best places for pets in all of Pueblo!

We quickly realized the need for our rescue team and established ourselves as a no kill shelter. We promise any rescue that lands in our clinic that their needs will be taken care of until we find them a forever home! If there is a case of a hard-to-adopt pet, they can utilize our facility as sanctuary for as long as they need us.

Our rescues are fixed, caught up on shots: dogs are microchipped and heartworm tested, and cats are feline leukemia/AIDS/ heartworm tested. If dogs are positive, they are treated. If cats are positive for AIDS or leukemia, they utilize our facility as sanctuary- if they need long term care, that is provided by our veterinary team.

In 2018 two new programs were developed and put into place at SoCO: The SoCO Bottle Feeding program is the only program in the city to offer care for neonatal kittens. We were very excited to have been awarded a grant for $5000.00 for our bottle feeding program, giving us the jump-start we needed in providing all the food, blankets, medicine we would need to train fosters to care for these fragile members of our society. We only anticipated caring for 70 neonates, but so far we have taken in over 100 kittens due to the acknowledgement of the program in the city and all of southern Colorado!

The other program is our SoCO Paw Responders Team, a lost and stray dog recovery team. We have been asked to help with over 30 rescues since our team came together and we have been given nearly $4,000.00 in donations to help us purchase the necessary tools for helping us catch and safely recover any lost or stray dog. Our team has received such notoriety that we are getting calls for help from all over Colorado, and we have had to expand to rescuing not only dogs, but cats as well!

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As a non-profit organization, our clinic can offer spays and neuters for a much lower price than what a full-service veterinary clinic can. This service helps families who could not otherwise afford to have their animal sterilized.

Our facility is not funded by the government- we earn our money through the veterinary services we provide. Donations and grant writing are also supplements to keep our facility running!

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Spaying or neutering your pet is the single greatest thing that can be done to help control the problem of pet overpopulation. Our services are available to every dog and cat owner. We are non-profit organization whose purpose is to deliver high quality, low-cost services. Call us today at 719-564-3776 to schedule an appointment or for more information.